Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British architect Edwin Lutyens.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth century".
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.
A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.